/etc files

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/30/15 12:39, Polytropon wrote:
>> >I see no /usr/src/etc directory after the
>> >fetch, so I surmise that the update is required, no ?
> Correct. If not present yet, it will be generated and
> populated automatically when you do the "install" step.
>
>
>
>> >If so, I will do
>> >that from a console login to minimize disturbances to the force, not the
>> >XFCE/rxvt ssh-root-login I currently have open ....
> It shouldn't matter. It's basically just an archive
> decompression process.:-)

OK, I did a 'freebsd-update fetch install', but still no /usr/src/etc:

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The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.3-RELEASE-p24:
/boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel/kernel.symbols
/usr/bin/slogin
/usr/bin/ssh
/usr/sbin/pkg
/usr/sbin/sshd
/usr/share/man/whatis
Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab: No 
such file or directory
install: ///usr/src/crypto/openssl/crypto/constant_time_locl.h: No such 
file or directory
install: ///usr/src/crypto/openssl/crypto/constant_time_test.c: No such 
file or directory
install: 
///usr/src/crypto/openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_ticket_key_cb.pod: 
No such file or directory
install: ///usr/src/crypto/openssl/test/constant_time_test.c: No such 
file or directory
install: 
///usr/src/secure/lib/libssl/man/SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_ticket_key_cb.3: No 
such file or directory
  done.
  whew !!!! that took (31.574 cpu + 14.762 sys) sec., 1:13.50 elapsed 
time tot, 63.0% CPU efficiency
         (26 text, 754 data, 10068 max) KB, (5299+1434) io, 0 pfs + 0 swaps
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:57:44pm] 378 % lf /usr/src/
contrib/
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:57:54pm] 379 % lf /usr/src/contrib/
file/
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:57:57pm] 380 % lf /usr/src/contrib/file/
config.guess  config.sub    depcomp       doc/ ltmain.sh     
magic/        missing       src/
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:58:00pm] 381 %


Not a huge issue, since it now appears that the files in question were 
foulups, not something essential, but this is now a bit curious :-/ ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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